Hosea Ballou – 8 Quotes

8 Quotes by Hosea Ballou

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

– Hosea Ballou

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

– Hosea Ballou

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

– Hosea Ballou

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

– Hosea Ballou

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

– Hosea Ballou

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

– Hosea Ballou

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

– Hosea Ballou

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

– Hosea Ballou